NCVP Alumni Residents

Lindsay Starkey, DVM, PhD, DACVM-Parasit.

Lindsay Starkey, DVM, PhD, DACVM-Parasit. is originally from Valley Falls, Kansas, a rural community in the northeastern part of the state. She attended the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville for her undergraduate degree where she received a B.S. in Animal Science with a minor in Biology. Lindsay then moved to Stillwater to pursue a veterinary degree at Oklahoma State University. She completed her DVM in May 2011 and began a PhD program in Veterinary Parasitology as the Bayer Resident in Veterinary Parasitology through the National Center for Veterinary Parasitology in August of 2011. During her Residency program, she assisted with teaching 1st and 2nd year veterinary students in parasitology courses as well as 4th year students during their diagnostics rotation in the teaching hospital. Lindsay defended her dissertation "Ehrlichia spp. of dogs: Risk of infection, persistence of rickettsemia, and impact on reinfection” on April 13, 2015, and graduated May 8, 2015. Lindsey is currently an Assistant Professorship in the Department of Pathobiology at Auburn University, a position she accepted in the Spring of 2016.

Alice Lee, DVM, PhD, DACVM-Parasit.Alice Lee, DVM, PhD, DACVM-Parasit. was born in Taiwan and grew up in Toronto, Canada. She completed her DVM at the University of Guelph’s Ontario Veterinary College and then briefly entered veterinary practice before deciding on a career in parasitology research and teaching. She joined the laboratory of Dr. Dwight Bowman at Cornell University as the Novartis Resident in Veterinary Parasitology through the National Center for Veterinary Parasitology. She graduated from the Biological and Biomedical Sciences PhD program in May 2016. Dr. Lee’s dissertational research included development of less invasive ways to evaluate the efficacy of canine anthelmintics. A second research project focused on the dynamics of Toxoplasma gondii and Toxocara canis co-infection in mice. During her residency, she actively participated in teaching veterinary students parasitology. Her ultimate goal is to remain in academia where she can help train future veterinarians and find better ways to diagnose and prevent parasitic diseases in animals. Alice is currently serving as an Extension Associate at Cornell University, where she is continuing her capsule endoscopy research and has helped to launch the Master of Professional Studies degree in veterinary parasitology now offered by Cornell. In her free time, Alice enjoys reading, music, world travel, and playing intramural sports with colleagues and students.​